👁️ Be Your Own Witness

Your awareness is your first line of defense.

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A political cartography of news sharing: Capturing story, outlet... News sharing on digital platforms shapes the digital spaces millions of users navigate. Trace data from these platforms also enables researchers to study online news circulation. In this context,...

Source:
Gaisbauer, Pournaki & Ohme (2025)A political cartography of news sharing

arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.0...

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#MediaLiteracy #DigitalSmarts #InfoTerritories4

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Next:
🧵 Why disinfo isn’t just an externality—it’s a built-in result of ad-funded infrastructure.

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Next up:
🧵 When bots make the money—how click metrics create the perfect ecosystem for disinformation.

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#SociotechnicalImaginaries #MediaLiteracy #InfoIntegrity #DigitalSmarts #AdDisinfo3

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Programmatic Advertising 101 –
How the System Works (and Fails)

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Next up:
🧵 The stories marketers tell themselves to justify it all—“sociotechnical imaginaries” and the myth of neutrality.

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#InfoIntegrity #CivicLiteracy #EpistemicInfrastructure
#DemocracyResilience #KnowledgeMatters

Stay informed. Stay critical.

Because in the fight against disinformation, knowledge is our most powerful tool.

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#DemocracyResilience #EpistemicInfrastructure

Hashtag Index for the Series:

#Disinformation
#PublicGoods
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#ForumThreads
#InfoIntegrity
#MediaEconomics
#DigitalSmarts
#CivicLiteracy
#DemocracyResilience
#EpistemicInfrastructure

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And unless we shift the incentives, truth will keep coming in second.

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#InfoIntegrity #AttentionEconomy #DigitalSmarts #PublicGoods

Otherwise, the truth remains someone else’s problem—until it’s everyone's.

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Markets won’t protect truth. But we can—with policy, pressure, and public awareness.

This is where the fight for information integrity begins.

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#CivicResilience #PatternRecognition

Thanks for following the series. Let us know what you'd like explained next.

Because defining disinfo isn’t just for researchers—it’s for everyone living in this information environment.

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#DigitalSmarts #ForumThreads

Next: how to classify these types systematically.

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In the next thread, we’ll look at types 6–11—where tactics get more emotional, interactive, and difficult to moderate.

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Each one plays by different rules. We’ll show how to tell them apart.

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Next: final thread in this series—what these cases teach us about recognizing CIB and building public resilience through pattern awareness.

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#DigitalSmarts #CivicResilience #MediaPsychology

Thanks for following along.

In the final thread: what these perception gaps mean for designing better responses to misinformation—at home and globally.

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Next: we’ll look more closely at media trust itself—and how it shapes not just what people believe, but what they think the problem is.

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If that matters to you, support those building it—and share what helps.

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#BiasAwareness #MediaLiteracy #DigitalSmarts #InfoLiteracy

Source:
Tsay-Vogel, M. (2020) - Third-Person Effect

In: International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology
www.researchgate.net...

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Next: what happens when that perception gap turns into behavior.

We’ll explore how the third-person effect influences support for regulation, censorship, and education.

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Until then, help amplify what matters.

Read the research.
Share the knowledge.
Support better literacy—for all of us.

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